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“Each finding like a friend
Something to blame, and something to commend.”

Alexander Pope

"Epistle to Mr. Jervas" (1717), lines 21–22.

“They dream in Courtship, but in Wedlock wake.”

Alexander Pope

"The Wife of Bath her Prologue, from Chaucer" (c.1704, published 1713), line 103.

“Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride!
They had no poet, and they died.
In vain they schem'd, in vain they bled!
They had no poet, and are dead.”

Alexander Pope

Odes, Book iv, Ode 9, reported in William Warburton, The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq (1751) p. 31.

“Ignobly vain, and impotently great.”

Alexander Pope

Source: Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato (1713), Line 29.

“Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast,
When husbands, or when lapdogs, breathe their last.”

Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock

Canto III, line 157.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)

“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.”

Alexander Pope

George Dennison Prentice http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4820, in Prenticeana (1860) <br class="br">Misattributed

“Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.”

Alexander Pope

"Epitaph on the Hon. S. Harcourt" (1720).

“Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began
A mighty hunter, and his prey was man.”

Alexander Pope book Windsor Forest

Source: Windsor Forest (1713), Line 61.

“From old Belerium to the northern main.”

Alexander Pope book Windsor Forest

Source: Windsor Forest (1713), Line 316.

“Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.”

Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock

Canto II, line 27. Compare: "No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Section 2, Membrane 1, Subsection 2.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)

“Never find fault with the absent.”

Alexander Pope

Absenti nemo non nocuisse velit.
Sextus Propertius, Elegies, II, xix, 32, also translated: "Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent".
Misattributed

“If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.”

Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock

Canto II, line 17.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)